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Autopackage support (binaries for Linux)
While Autopackage is nice, you can't expect everyone to ditch using their distros' regular package managers (like the lovely apt) in favor of it all the time. It is still better to get the package for your distro because it will always work best. For instance, I installed the Inkscape autopackage but some things in the application appear broken - I think this is because I am running Ubuntu Hoary and it has libraries that are older than the versions required by Inksape 0.42. While Autopackage would be a really nice way for us to make binaries easily, it would be ideal to provide .debs and .rpms and even packages for Slackware and other distros as much as we can. For this, however, we have to rely on our users/community because we can't run every distro and package for all of them.As someone mentioned the Autopackage docs want the program not to care where its binaries are versus where its data is, and right now with VDrift that's impossible. Until Joe gets that fixed (he will, eventually), we could just make a tarball binary release or maybe even use a Loki installer (hmmm, that's an interesting thought). What do you guys think?
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